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Second Edition
By
Leonard Gunderson, MD, MS, Professor and Chair of Oncology, Mayo Medical School and Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Joel Tepper, MD, Professor and Chairman, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC
Description
The completely revised 2nd Edition of CLINICAL RADIATION ONCOLOGY provides the most comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date information
available for treating patients with cancer. Featuring a multidisciplinary perspective, the text examines the therapeutic management
of specific disease sites based on both single-modality and combined-modality approaches - providing you with the well-rounded, cutting-edge
guidance you need to offer the most effective treatments. A consistent chapter format throughout - paired with an all-new full-color
design - makes reference fast and easy.
Contents
SECTION I. SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATIONS OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY
Part A. RADIOBIOLOGY
Chapter 1. Biological Basis
of Radiation Oncology
Chapter 2. Molecular and Cellular Biology
Chapter 3. Dose Response Modifiers in Radiation Oncology
Chapter
4. Interaction of Chemotherapy and Radiation
Chapter 5. Biologics and Interactions with Radiation
Part B. PHYSICS
Chapter
6. Radiation Oncology Physics
Part C. RELATED CANCER DISCIPLINES
Chapter 7. Surgical Principles
Chapter 8. Principles
of Chemotherapy
Chapter 9. Imaging in Oncology
Chapter 10. Nuclear Medicine
Chapter 11. Health Services Research in Radiation
Oncology: Toward Achieving the Achievable for Patients with Cancer
Chapter 12. Statistics and Clinical Trials
SECTION
II. TECHNIQUES AND MODALITIES
Chapter 13. Brachytherapy
Chapter 14. Conformal Therapy: Treatment Planning, Treatment
Delivery, and Clinical Results
Chapter 15. Intraoperative Irradiation
Chapter 16. Stereotactic Irradiation: Linear Accelerator
and Gamma Knife
Chapter 17. Total Body Irradiation
Chapter 18. Charged Particle Radiotherapy
Chapter 19. Neutron Radiotherapy
Chapter
20. Hyperthermia
Chapter 21. Targeted Radionuclide Therapy
Chapter 22. Palliation of Metastases: Bone, Spinal Cord, Brain, Liver
SECTION III. DISEASE SITES
Part A. CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMORS OVERVIEW
Chapter 23. Low-Grade Gliomas
Chapter
24. High-Grade Gliomas
Chapter 25. Meningioma, Ependymoma and Other Adult Brain Tumors
Chapter 26. Pituitary Tumors
Chapter
27. Spinal Tumors
Chapter 28. Orbital, Ocular, and Optic Nerve Tumors
Part B. HEAD AND NECK TUMORS OVERVIEW
Chapter 29.
Oral Cavity
Chapter 30. Oropharyngeal Cancer
Chapter 31. Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
Chapter 32. Larynx and Hypopharnyx Cancer
Chapter
33. Sinonasal Cancer
Chapter 34. Salivary Gland Cancer
Chapter 35. Thyroid Cancer
Chapter 36. Squamous Cell Carcinoma Metastatic
to the Neck from an Unknown Head and Neck Primary Site
Chapter 37. Management of the Neck
Chapter 38. Cutaneous Carcinoma
Chapter
39. Melanoma
Part C. THORACIC NEOPLASMS OVERVIEW
Chapter 40. Small Cell Lung Cancer
Chapter 41. Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer
Chapter
42. Cancer of the Esophagus
Chapter 43. Uncommon Thoracic Malignancies
Part D. GASTROINTESTINAL TUMORS OVERVIEW
Chapter
44. Stomach Cancer
Chapter 45. Pancreatic Cancer
Chapter 46. Hepatobiliary Tumors
Chapter 47. Colon Cancer
Chapter 48.
Rectal Cancer
Chapter 49. Anal Carcinoma
Part E. GENITOURINARY TUMORS OVERVIEW
Chapter 50. Prostate Cancer
Chapter
51. Bladder Cancer
Chapter 52. Testicular Cancer
Chapter 53. Kidney and Ureteral Carcinoma
Chapter 54. Penile Cancer
Part F. GYNECOLOGIC TUMORS OVERVIEW
Chapter 55. Cervical Cancer
Chapter 56. Endometrial Cancer
Chapter 57. Vulvar and
Vaginal Carcinoma
Chapter 58. Ovarian Cancer
Part G. BREAST CANCER OVERVIEW
Chapter 59. Noninvasive Breast Cancer
Chapter
60. Breast Cancer: Stages I and II
Chapter 61. Breast Cancer: Stages T3 and T4 Locally Advanced and Inflammatory Breast Cancer and
Postmastectomy Radiation Therapy
Part H. SARCOMA and BENIGN DISEASE
Chapter 62. Soft Tissue Sarcoma
Chapter 63. Radiotherapy
of Non-malignant Diseases
Part I. CHILDHOOD CANCERS OVERVIEW
Chapter 64. Central Nervous System Tumors in Childhood
Chapter
65. Pediatric Soft Tissue Sarcomas
Chapter 66. Pediatric Sarcomas of Bone
Chapter 67. Wilm?s Tumor
Chapter 68. Retinoblastoma
Chapter
69. Neuroblastoma
Chapter 70. Leukemias and Lymphomas in Children
Chapter 71. Hodgkins
Chapter 72. Rare Tumors in Children
Part
J. LYMPHOMA AND HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCIES OVERVIEW
Chapter 73. Hodgkin?s Disease
Chapter 74. Non-Hodgkin?s Disease
Chapter
75. Multiple Myeloma and other Plasma Cell Neoplasms
Chapter 76. Mycosis Fungoides
INDEX
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Hardbound, 1888 pages, publication date: DEC-2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-443-06840-9
ISBN-10: 0-443-06840-2
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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